Getting Thankful

Even though it's Monday Night, I feel like it's Friday. Today was a breakthrough day on a very large procurement for Nanepashemet Telecom. Tons of emotional capital spent. Hopefully, it is a good investment.
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There will be no clinking of champagne glasses until the fat lady sings. But she's starting to warm up. It could be a great Thanksgiving Holiday.

Running It Up

To the Buffalo Bills fans who were chanting bad things to Brady because of the last score....
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If the Pats really wanted to run up the score, you would have lost by 80 points. Do you really pine to play our 3rd string?
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Belichick should do what he is doing. If your level of execution is excellent, it is wrong to dumb it down in any circumstances.

Gearing up for the Annual Bash

I'm fairly certain that Scott McBurney is out of the country. He's not even in the Western Hemisphere.
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So if you were thinking of coming to the 2007 Nestor Thanksgiving Eve Bash, the coast is clear.
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Every year we get some Peeps who whine that they were not invited. That is so bogus, because there are no invitations.
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Zazen

Peeps....
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It's 10:22PM on Sunday night. Tom Brady has just thrown his fifth touchdown pass against the Buffalo Bills. We are watching a professional who has attained a concentrated singularity of purpose.
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It is the Tao of Football.
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Please appreciate this. It is not often that you see someone in such command of his craft.
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Brady, like Larry Bird of the Celtics used to do, makes all around him reach a higher level of attainment.
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In the telecast, John Madden and Al Michaels are reduced to praise and conjecture of whether the Patriots are the best team to ever plan the game. The Bills can't be this bad.... the Patriots are just that good.

Patriots Preparation

Will and his Nana, Joanne, are obviously ready for the Patriots game. The Bills don't have a chance.

Making Hay

Today was a work day. I know that it is Saturday, but "you have to make hay while the sun shines".
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I actually have no idea what this means, but I find myself saying it quite often. I don't know how to make hay, and I have no idea what the sun has to do with it.
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But it sounds pretty official. At any rate, I worked today because there is a ton of stuff to get done at Nanepashemet Telecom.

Government on Steroids

The possibility of Barry Bonds going to jail for lying about steroid use is ludicrous. The prisons couldn't hold all of the athletes, trainers and team officials who are guilty of this.
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Using steroids is stupid, but is it cheating? Does lifting weights give an athlete an unfair advantage? How about jogging? How about cortisone shots?
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I don't condone the use of steroids because it is stupid, not because it is cheating. If Bonds wants to tear apart his future body for a short term career satisfaction, that is his stupid choice.

BTW, looking at Bonds' photos at the beginning of his career and then now is completely bogus. I'm 100 lbs heavier too, and never stuck the juice into my ass cheek. You get old, you get heavier for most of us. Live with it.
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Bonds apparently is a man of low character. That is why he allegedly lied about taking steroids. But to set him up for indictment is a waste of government resources.

POTW Week 46

I hate to reveal my weaknesses to you Peeps.... because you are so quick to judge, and so harsh in your judgements. Yet, I am drawn to express the truth from a strange, moving, somewhat idiotic force. I wish that I could be more demure and discrete at times.... but discretion can be so boring.
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So, given that nice little preamble, I have to admit that I am scared of heights.... really afraid.... like having a sinking fear from my stomach to my scrotum. I can be on a rooftop with a parapet, and no problem. But a flat roof that you can fall off the edges sends me to wanting to assume the fetal position in the middle, as far away from the edges as possible.
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Notice that I said wanting. I resisted the position in actuality
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Not only am I nervous for me, but I can't stand to see anyone else near the edge.
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I know what you're thinking.....
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How can a rough, tough manly man like myself be so freaking fearful???
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It's a mystery to me too. But today, on a rooftop in Providence, RI, I was reduced to a quivering mass of nervous protoplasm. Which reminds me....

ANNOUNCING....
Nanepashemet Peeps of the Week for the 46th Week of 2007

• Bill Shanahan
• Jill Phillips
• Emily Buttorf
• Pat Piscatelli
• Sue Roper
• Debby Clarke

Tomorrow, I'll get on another roof.

Mass Movement

Peeps.....
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Would you believe it if I told you that I was too busy to Blog?
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Say it ain't So!!!
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But that is the case as Nanepashemet Telecom reaches critical mass. After a while, we will open up and hire, which I swore not to do, but it is getting big fast. Which means I am glued to this keyboard, with a Blog in need and a Dory project waiting for a next step that just keeps getting pushed back.
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Please don't panic. I will find a way to solve this.

Tender Moment

For those of you who have been constantly asking to see a photo of the Tender, here it is.
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See???
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Obviously, I'm not immune to your incessant questions and comments. ~
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Even I can be worn down.

Dory Delays

Yesterday, during my row around the Harbor, I saw an 18 foot Swampscott Dory with two oarsmen. It moved throught the swells very smoothly and inspired me to get the Marblehead Gunning Dory project back on track. But today, I hit the laptop at 6:30AM, skipped lunch, broke for dinner at 5:30 PM and then worked from 7:30 until just now at 9:45PM. And I still didn't get where I wanted to be. My partners are also kicking it.
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And that's just to clear to decks so that we can deal with the big procurement that just walked in the Nanepashemet Telecom door. There will be some major hours processing that. I'm not complaining. This is infinitely better than waiting for the phone to ring, or trying to manufacture opportunities.
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But I'm not the least bit optimistic about finding the time to spend on the Dory. Plus it's starting to be the time to plan on the annual Nestor Thankgiving Eve Bash. Joanne wants to scale it down this year. She says that every year, and every year it always escalates to a blowout.
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What makes this year different? Absolutely nothing. All of you Peeps are invited, and none of you know how to behave.

Pinch Yourself

Did the Red Sox win the World Series a couple weeks ago? Or have I been dreaming? Holy Shit!!! Time to pinch myself.